SIKWINDI S. SITULA is President Hakainde Hichilema's first Presidential Campaign Strategist (2007‐2011) and UPND's Deputy Secretary General for political Affairs who also served as Party Coordinator for International Affairs. Apart from being a governance expert and civil and political activists of many years, Sikwindi is also Managing Editor of The Barotse Times Newspaper, and Former Chairman of Bensizwe in Zambia. He is also President of Africa's premier people's pan-African organisation called State55 and owner of Easi Preps.

Sikwindi was ordained as a deacon in the New Apostolic Church on August 31, 2014. His intertwine of incisive analysis, research and independent thought allows him to assess the confluence, divisions and wider intersections of religious ideas, beliefs and doctrinal positions. His privileged position in politics and civil activism all influence and add to the irresistible design, content and flow of the first book he authored, FALL OF THE CHURCH FROM GRACE.

Sikwindi's wide participation in politics affords him a rare rill into Hakainde Hichilema's peculiar story—interrogating the whys and wherefores thereby examine the successes and failures in order to side-step pitfalls over a delicate balance between logic and the unquenched curiosity to escape the entrapments of extreme ethnic political divides under the teeth of economic stagnation. For this reason, Sikwindi's current book writing project (BEHIND BARKING DOGS) about President Hichilema's political experiences and resultant fortunes, confirms his depth in not only Zambia's political landscape, but is a hark back into history with a thoughtful process of geopolitics as it must inform the solutions we craft. In his ways, he accosts Zambia's future on the broad brush of being Africa's own, within world teeters of two opposing poles— whereby Zambia's unparalleled social, economic and political transformation, is anticipated to be a case study for the whole of Africa.